{"id":3895,"date":"2007-07-18T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2017-11-25T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T20:06:36","slug":"lolcat-all-the-way-to-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/lolcat-all-the-way-to-the-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"LOLCat All the Way to the Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve linked to it before and I read it a couple times a week, but now it&#8217;s a bona fide Web phenomenon: <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\">I Can Has Cheezburger?<\/a> appears in <i>Business Week<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He saw traffic on the blog, I Can Has Cheezburger, which he runs with his partner, &#8220;Tofuburger&#8221; (she refuses to disclose her real name) double each month: 375,000 hits in March, 750,000 in April, 1.5 million in May. Cheezburger now gets 500,000 page views a day from between 100,000 and 200,000 unique visitors, according to Nakagawa. The cheapest ad costs $500 for a week. The most expensive goes for nearly $4,000. Nakagawa, an accidental entrepreneur who saw his successful business materialize out of the ether, quit his programming job at the end of May: &#8220;It made more sense to do this and see how big it could get.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I know the feeling.  I&#8217;ve been blogging here for over 4 years, and I&#8217;ve seen my daily traffic go from 10 to 120 visitors a day, and I&#8217;ve made (theoretically) $.08 in money from the Amazon Associates program.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the proprietor of I Can Has Cheezburger has already found out about how big it&#8217;s going to get.  I hope he&#8217;s not planning to retire on it, because Internet phenomena come and go.<\/p>\n<p>But still, it&#8217;s a cool site and it&#8217;s neat that the fellow can make some scratch from it.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/big-cheezburger.html\" target=\"_new\">Ann Althouse<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve linked to it before and I read it a couple times a week, but now it&#8217;s a bona fide Web phenomenon: I Can Has Cheezburger? appears in Business Week: He saw traffic on the blog, I Can Has Cheezburger, which he runs with his partner, &#8220;Tofuburger&#8221; (she refuses to disclose her real name) double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}